Medical Establishment Wants Less Free Speech, More Mutilated Children | Opinion
Woke medical establishment now not only seeks to encourage interventions up to the mutilation of children's' bodies, but with it the mutilation of Americans' free speech rights in service of its lucrative "gender-affirming care" enterprise.The American Medical Association (AMA), joined by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association, recently delivered a letter to U.S.
Attorney General Merrick Garland calling for him to unleash the Justice Department on foes of efforts to transition children.In so doing, the AMA et al.
took a page out of the notorious National School Board Association (NSBA) playbook. The play goes like this: When journalists and activists expose an institution's radical positions, spurring a damaging backlash, claim that the costly revelations constitute disinformation, that the disinformation is inciting dangerous acts, and that therefore public and private authorities ought to pursue the "disinformers."The play is made more effective when the authorities to whom the institution is appealing are already on the institution's side, as was the case with the NSBA and the Biden administration.The AMA and its co-signers made their play by arguing that the doctors they represent and the facilities where the doctors work are facing:coordinated attacks threaten[ing] federally protected rights to health care for patients and their families.
